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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. ↗

— Richard Russo

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I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit. ↗

— Ron Silver

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Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps. ↗

— Payne Stewart

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Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values. ↗

— Ted Strickland

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The first few years I was in Vermont quite a bit, but I don't think I ever spent years and years there. ↗

— Ethan Suplee

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